CA and IBM, two of the so-called Big Four in systems management
software, announced this week a federated configuration
management database (CMDB) system for interoperability of their
software. Something like this comoing from two of Big Four (BMC,
CA, HP and IBM) wouldn’t normally hold much meaning for open
source players such as GroundWork, Hyperic and Zenoss, but it
actually does for a couple of reasons.

First, part of the technology that CA and IBM are using to link
up their systems management software, which allows it to share
information between the two CMDBs, is actually open source
software itself from the Eclipse Cosmos Project. CA and IBM said the
Eclipse Cosmos software accelerated implementation of the CMDB
Federation (CMDBf) specification and the two vendors plan to
contribute code …

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